Aug 07 2008
Bob Cesca’s HuffPost Entry: Protecting McCain’s Ignorance With A ‘Great Wall of Duh’
In an otherwise brilliant post, Bob Cesca nevertheless missed a key point. He quotes John McCain here:
“[Senator Obama is] claiming putting air in your tires is the equivalent of new offshore drilling,” McCain said. “That’s not an energy plan, my friends — that’s a public service announcement.”
Yes, it’s a lie. Yes, it’s ignorant. But most importantly, it’s disingenuous — deliberately ignorant with the intention to deceive. Not unlike FOX News Channel, Senator McCain is not just exploiting the ignorance of his supporters — he’s counting on it. He’s and his cynical strategists are counting on their own supporters to be unaware of the verifiable fact that if we maintain proper tire pressure, we would conserve more oil than would be attained with the McCain plan for offshore drilling. And he’s counting on his supporters to blindly ditto this line — a line that’s specifically designed to be easily repeated for the sake of painting Senator Obama as weak and ineffectual. Ironic, isn’t it.
In point of actual fact – Obama’s support of tire gauges IS a public service announcement – that’s the concession that McCain had to make since, after all, it’s true. The LIE is the idea that this is Sen. Obama’s plan. It is not. Obama gave a full detailed, multi-faceted plan and McCain refuses to acknowledge it or give it a fair debate.
That, my friends, is not a leader we can believe in.
QT
BTW – A link to Bob Cesca’s blog is to the left. He’s both brilliant and funny – so have a look-see. 
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